Making molecularism. I. Selected papers. I. Bibliography
Publisher: Groningen University Press
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Groningen, Netherlands
Language: eng
Format: Paperback (and hardcover)
Number of pages: 672
ISBN-13: 9789081442855
Description: A kind of balance sheet of 15 years historiography concerning the (atomic) and molecular theory (2001-2016) in the spirit of Van 't Hoff's Dix années dans l'histoire d'une théorie (1887).
Table of contents: title: v
label: Contents; title: xv
label: Preface; pagenum: 1
title: Vondel's 'vezelingen', or: atoms and apologetics
label: 1; pagenum: 23
title: Isaac Beeckman (1588-1637) and the molecularization of the microcosm. An aspect of the 'mechanization of the world picture'
label: 2; pagenum: 45
title: Beeckman's 'molecular' theory as a new category in the theory of matter; an overview
label: 3; pagenum: 65
title: Molecular terminology: Beeckman and Euclid
label: 4; pagenum: 81
title: The origin of the molecular picture of the world
label: 5; pagenum: 91
title: Substance and plane: Beeckman and Escher
label: 6; pagenum: 97
title: De Rerum Natura, or a Dialogue concerning atoms and molecules between Titus Lucretius Carus and Isaac Beeckman under the direction of Philophysics (a theatre play)
label: 7; pagenum: 113
title: 'Atoms' and 'molecules' in a classical perspective
label: 8; pagenum: 139
title: Book review: Lucretius, De natuur der dingen - De rerum natura, text edition with Dutch translation, introduction, and notes by Piet Schrijvers (2008)
label: 9; pagenum: 155
title: Simon Stevin and Maurice of Nassau
label: 10; pagenum: 173
title: Christiaan Huygens' scientific education
label: 11; pagenum: 185
title: Christiaan Huygens and the foundations of optics
label: 12; pagenum: 209
title: Molecular proportions according to Christiaan Huygens
label: 13; pagenum: 213
title: Elements, atoms, and molecules: from Beeckman to Lavoisier
label: 14; pagenum: 231
title: Newton's molecular atomism: fractals, physics, and chemistry
label: 15; pagenum: 239
title: Laplace and the rise of molecularism
label: 16; pagenum: 249
title: Laplace and Perrin: grains as molecules
label: 17; pagenum: 265
title: Auguste Comte and molecularism
label: 18; pagenum: 289
title: J. D. Van der Waals: backgrounds of the equation of state
label: 19; pagenum: 301
title: Maxwell, metaphysics, and molecularism
label: 20; pagenum: 311
title: Statistical mechanics according to Maxwell and Boltzmann
label: 21; pagenum: 333
title: Boltzmann for ever !
label: 22; pagenum: 357
title: Some aspects of the status of molecularism in physics 1900-1915
label: 23; pagenum: 371
title: Planck's quanta as 'molecules of energy'
label: 24; pagenum: 383
title: A short history of the microscope. I (ca.1608-1826)
label: 25; pagenum: 401
title: Copernicanism at the University of Groningen; the years of Nicolaus Mulerius (1614-1630)
label: 26; pagenum: 411
title: European Physical Society (1968-2008): the early years
label: 27; pagenum: 419
title: A Tribute to Niels Bohr
label: 28; pagenum: 429
title: A Tribute to Enrico Fermi
label: 29; pagenum: 435
title: A Tribute to Wróblewski and Olszewski
label: 30; pagenum: 443
title: A Tribute to J. J. Thomson
label: 31; pagenum: 451
title: A Tribute to Max von Laue
label: 32; pagenum: 459
title: A Tribute to Jean Perrin
label: 33; pagenum: 465
title: The Johann Bernoulli globe electrical machine
label: 34; pagenum: 469
title: Alum crystal contest: a new record
label: 35; pagenum: 471
title: In memoriam: Hendrik De Waard (1922-2008)
label: 36; pagenum: 475
title: Eloge: Karin Figala, 1938-2007
label: 37; pagenum: 481
title: Eloge: René Taton, 1915-2004
label: 38; pagenum: 487
title: Reijer Hooykaas (1906-1994)
label: 39; pagenum: 493
title: Charles Coulston Gillispie, or the new history of science
label: 40; pagenum: 507
title: Bibliography 1971-2016
label: 41; pagenum: 569
title: Reviews and reactions
label: 42; pagenum: 591
title: Index of names